新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Using Community Engagement to Drive Co-Creation in Rural China(社區參與驅動共創：在中國鄉村的例子)

摘要：

Underdeveloped and developing regions are among the most important arenas for social design and increasingly attract broader interest from other fields of research and practice. Participatory design and co-creation are typical approaches to collecting indigenous wisdom and creating design solutions with social empathy and inclusion. However, the unequal involvement of local participants and inherent knowledge barriers evident in collaborations frequently lead to problems in the suitability and sustainability of systems built in the design process. Strategies and methods for engaging local communities more deeply in co-creation are needed to address these issues. Following transdisciplinary empirical studies in real-world rural Chinese settings, we explored the novel use of interactive drama to engage a local community in short-term cross-cultural co-creation with the goal of building the core characteristics of a local but better community. The results from the participatory process and participants’ feedback are promising, with clear indicators of community engagement and knowledge sharing beyond the design process itself. The lessons learnt and approaches discussed in this paper provide a starting point for increasing community engagement with social design practices and research across different societies.

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未發達和發展中地區是社會設計最重要的場域之一，且近來越來越引發跨領域的研究與實踐。其中參與式設計和共同創造的理念，是典型地融合在地智慧、創建具有社會同理心之設計方法。不過，在地參與者的不平等參與，以及協作中固有的固有知識障礙，經常導致設計過程中構建的系統不適用或無法持續影響的問題，為了解決這些問題，需要使在地社區更深入地參與，發展共同創造的策略和方法。在對於中國鄉村現實環境進行跨領域實證研究之後，我們使用互動戲劇的新方法，以使本地社區參與短期跨文化共創，目的是建立更好的在地社區的核心特質。過程中參與者的反饋令人鼓舞，除了設計過程本身之外，還發展出明確的社區參與和知識共享指標。本文討論的經驗和方法，能為在不同社會中通過社會設計實踐和研究中，在提升社區參與程度方面提供了起點。